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Jim Scott

Jim Scott, Director, Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies. Jim helped build the Hadoop community in Chicago as cofounder of the Chicago Hadoop Users Group. He has implemented Hadoop to support a variety of enterprise use cases from Online Transactional Processing at a rate of 60B transactions per day to full data center monitoring and retail analytics. Jim speaks at many industry events around the world on big data technologies and is the creator of the Zeta Architecture.

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Hadoop and Spark: A Match Made in (Big Data) Heaven

Jim Scott · March 7, 2016

If you listen in on what people are talking about at Big Data conferences, chances are you’ll hear a lot of buzz around Hadoop and Spark. People often think of Hadoop and Apache Spark as key tools for tackling a wide range of big data challenges, but they assume that